Touch gestures: a way to browse the web via elements using touch gestures

nvaccessAuto commented 11 years ago

Reported by nvdakor on 2013-08-08 09:38 Hi, Tablets are becoming prevalent, and so does penetration of Internet. Some tablets does have keyboards, while majority are slates without a hardware keyboard. Also, many tablet users (including blind users) use their device for web browsing. Thus I'd like to propose a feature to allow web browsing on touchscreens via elements using touch gestures alone. The specifics are as follows:

A dedicated web browser mode that'll be available if browse mode (virtual buffer) is active.
The browse mode would use one or two finger flicks to select from a list of navigable elements and to move from same element to next. For reading text within an element such as heading, one would use text mode.
For elements list, I propose the following element choices: landmarks, forms, headings, links, lists, embedded objects and tables.
If needed, a way to toggle between focus and browse modes using touch gestures. If you need testers, there are at least two (myself and another user) for colaboration. Thanks for your considerations.

nvaccessAuto commented 10 years ago

Comment 1 by nvdakor on 2013-12-03 02:15 Hi, An add-on which implements this has been developed:

Repo: https://bitbucket.org/nvdaaddonteam/EnhancedTouchGestures
Branch master Thanks.

bhavyashah commented 7 years ago

@feerrenrut Are we okay for the proposed functionality to be part of core? If the answer is yes, I would like to kindly request @josephsl, originally user nvdakor and the author of the Enhanced Touch Gestures NVDA add-on, to please consider creating a pull request submitting relevant code in the near future - or at least consider being assigned this ticket.

josephsl commented 7 years ago

Hi, not just yet unless @MichaelDCurran says it is okay for now, as he is planning something different. Thanks.

Adriani90 commented 5 years ago

@josephsl any updates on this? Is NV Access planning a different approach?

josephsl commented 5 years ago

Hi, although Enhanced Touch Gestures add-on did resolve this to some degree, there are other things to be done. CC @MichaelDCurran

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@josephsl https://github.com/josephsl any updates on this? Is NV Access planning a different approach?

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josephsl commented 2 months ago

Hi,

2024 update: @kefaslungu is maintaining Enhanced Touch Gestures. Thanks.

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Touch gestures: a way to browse the web via elements using touch gestures #3424